Devise Supply Chain Visibility: network automation; network orchestration; network programmability; network as code; zero touch provisioning (ZTP); SDN controllers; Capacity Management systems; Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

More Uses of the Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit:


• Develop consulting team members in Supply Chain, Client Management, Financial Management, and client Value Delivery.
  
  

• Drive Supply Chain Visibility: monitor intermediate material Demand And Supply in order to ensure material is available and ready for use to support Manufacturing Operations.
  
  

• Execute upon and contribute to the Supply Chain Technology Roadmap by matching Business Needs with existing and upcoming technologies, capabilities and services.
  
  

• Oversee the development of project and resource plans and validate that all significant plans are optimized with regards to schedule and personnel.
  
  

• Ensure your organization analyzes current inventories and procedures; suggests improvements to increase efficiency of Supply Chain and profitability for your organization.
  
  

• Be accountable for detailing Business Requirements and analyzing data to provide appropriate and supporting metrics.
  
  

• Develop complete analysis/timeline related to Supply And Demand for new Product Launches, product end of life, product transitions, and products transferring production location.
  
  

• Collaborate with various partners (sourcing, merchandising, design, Supply Chain, data integrity) on cross department activities promoting Process Optimization.
  
  

• Arrange that your corporation provides focus, direction, leadership and technical expertise to various Supply Chain and Plant Personnel.
  
  

• Ensure your organization serves as a point of escalation, troubleshooting, and partners with thE Business units, stakeholders and leadership in the day to day resolution and management of Supply Chain needs.
  
  

• Confirm your organization prepares and/or review monthly reports of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Supply Chain to ensure operational efficiencies and financial accountability.
  
  

• Provide technical expertise, special knowledge and market directions to engineering.
  
  

• Ensure you lead cross Business Teams in the creation of annual Supply Chain Planning to achieve Total Cost of Ownership savings through improvements to Policy, Price, Process, Service Levels, and Supplier Management.
  
  

• Confirm your organization complies; conducts ongoing safety inspections of facilities, Operations, and equipment to ensure Compliance and Safe Working environment for associates.
  
  

• Stay informed of technology advances and investigate whether appropriate current technology tools or applications can make logistics processes more efficient and cost effective.
  
  

• Create and communicate analytical Reports And Dashboards to monitor supplier utilization trends and performance to established goals.
  
  

• Confirm your team complies; cross functional collaboration with Marketing, Category Management, Inventory, Supply Chain, Pricing and Merchandising Operations departments for successful program launch and implementation.
  
  

• Coordinate Supply Chain Visibility: partner closely with marketing, E Commerce, Supply Chain, Customer Service, finance and other teams to deliver short and long terms objectives.
  
  

• Optimize supply base moving towards a few strategic suppliers.
  
  

• Govern Supply Chain Visibility: track issues, software bugs, and enhancements, in the various Supply Chain systems and follow through to resolution.
  
  

• Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in creating a fulfillment plan and developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase outs.
  
  

• Your mission to deliver affordable Supply Chain solutions that meet all program requirements and manage Supply Chain risks to ensure positive supplier performance through all phases of the program Life Cycle from capture to sustainment.
  
  

• Organize Supply Chain Visibility: credible portfolio of connections in the industry to create opportunities of supply routes and services.
  
  

• Interact, integrate, and drive results across cross functional teams in engineering, manufacturing, Supply Chain, quality, production, Production Control, sales, service, etc.
  
  

• Identify Best Practices as part of source to contract process and enable Knowledge Sharing among Supply Chain stakeholders.
  
  

• Confirm your operation prepares and/or review monthly reports of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Supply Chain to ensure operational efficiencies and financial accountability.
  
  

• Establish that your corporation develops Best Practice SOPs for effective management of inventories, planning, Master Data Management, planning systems logic and ongoing Supply Planning Team Development.
  
  

• Ensure you collaborate; lead Supply Chain and Operations Strategy, empowering the team to achieve KPIs through excellence in merchandising, manufacturing, logistics, and Customer Service.
  
  

• Support external and internal clients with detailed cost and Performance Analysis for Supply Chain solutions.
  
  

• Be certain that your operation meets daily with supply planners to consider key in stock and inventory issues, focus areas for the week and extended timeframes.
  
  

• Interpret data on logistics elements, as availability, maintainability, reliability, Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing or distribution, Supplier Management, or transportation.
  
  

• Be accountable for managing Issue Management and escalation reporting User Access process, ensuring that users have appropriate visibility based on Need To Know.
  
  

• Steer Supply Chain Visibility: practical use of Design Thinking, innovation or experimentation strategies designed to improve utilization and outcome of Analytics Products.
  
  


Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supply Chain Visibility related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supply Chain Visibility specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Visibility Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Visibility improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Where do ideas that reach policy makers and planners as proposals for Supply Chain Visibility strengthening and reform actually originate?
   
   

2. How do you use Supply Chain Visibility data and information to support Organizational Decision Making and innovation?
   
   

3. Do you monitor the Supply Chain Visibility decisions made and fine tune them as they evolve?
   
   

4. How frequently do you verify your Supply Chain Visibility strategy?
   
   

5. How is implementation research currently incorporated into each of your goals?
   
   

6. How do you ensure that implementations of Supply Chain Visibility products are done in a way that ensures safety?
   
   

7. Is Supply Chain Visibility realistic, or are you setting yourself up for failure?
   
   

8. What are the record-keeping requirements of Supply Chain Visibility activities?
   
   

9. What relationships among Supply Chain Visibility trends do you perceive?
   
   

10. What creative shifts do you need to take?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supply Chain Visibility book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supply Chain Visibility self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supply Chain Visibility Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Visibility areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supply Chain Visibility Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supply Chain Visibility projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Supply Chain Visibility Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Supply Chain Visibility project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Supply Chain Visibility project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the Supply Chain Visibility Project Team have enough people to execute the Supply Chain Visibility Project Plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Supply Chain Visibility Project Plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


 
Step-by-step and complete Supply Chain Visibility Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supply Chain Visibility project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supply Chain Visibility Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Supply Chain Visibility Project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Supply Chain Visibility project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Supply Chain Visibility project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Supply Chain Visibility project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supply Chain Visibility project with this in-depth Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supply Chain Visibility projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Visibility and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Visibility investments work better.

This Supply Chain Visibility All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.